Sunday, November 19, 2017

Europeans More Inclined to Identify Russians as European than Russians Are, New Poll Finds

Paul
Goble

Staunton, November 19 – A new survey
by Germany’s Körber-Stiftung finds that while only 41 percent of Germans and 38
percent of polls do not consider Russia part of Europe, a slightly higher
percentage of Russians – 44 percent – say that they do not consider their
country part of Europe.

The Körber Foundation
poll also identified some important value differences among the populations of
these three countries. According to the survey, 86 percent of Germans, 83
percent of Russians, but only 56 percent of Poles said that showing hostility
to foreigners was something now wrong.

The three also diverged about the
role of the mass media and its relationship to the state. The poll found that
76 percent of the Russians said that the task of the media is to support the
government and report its decisions to the population. Only 53 percent of the
Poles, and 43 percent of the Germans shared that view.